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The art of weaving is an old tradition in the Kingdom of Nepal, especially in the mountainous region of the country. Radii, Pakhi, Bakkhu, Darhi (with pile) are well-known Nepalese products produced in these regions using indigenous wool. The marketing of these products was confined to the domestic market.
The development of an export quality carpet was initiated with the influx of the Tibetan refugees in the early sixties. Credit goes to the Swiss Agency for Technical Assistance (SATA) for their contribution, in the development of the carpet industry in Nepal through financial & technical support to the Tibetan refugee re-settlement programs. In the beginning, it was launched as a source of livelihood for the Tibetan refugees and marketing was limited to tourists visiting the kingdom. Efforts to gain access in the international market arena paid-off in 1964 when the first commercial shipment left to Europe, namely Switzerland. With vision and entrepreneur skill it transformed into a nationally recognized commercial commodity and remains the most important export product from Nepal.

Seeing Hands Nepal is a UK Registered Charity, set up to provide training and employment opportunities in massage therapy for young blind people in Nepal.
In the training centres in Katmandu and Pokhara, blind and partially-sighted students are learning Remedial Massage skills taught by Rob Ainley (DO LCSP HPC), and a team of experienced volunteer massage therapists. Their course is comprehensive, requiring a thorough understanding of Anatomy and Physiology and a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice.
Students practice their skills on 'volunteer clients' in our adjoining Treatment Clinic, where they work when they become certified Seeing Hands masseurs. Part of their earnings help to fund the training of more young and disadvantaged blind people.
It is the eventual aim for the Seeing Hands project to evolve into a totally self-sustaining social enterprise, run by the blind, for the blind.

Seeing Hands Nepal is a UK Registered Charity, set up to provide training and employment opportunities in massage therapy for young blind people in Nepal.
In the training centres in Katmandu and Pokhara, blind and partially-sighted students are learning Remedial Massage skills taught by Rob Ainley (DO LCSP HPC), and a team of experienced volunteer massage therapists. Their course is comprehensive, requiring a thorough understanding of Anatomy and Physiology and a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice.
Students practice their skills on 'volunteer clients' in our adjoining Treatment Clinic, where they work when they become certified Seeing Hands masseurs. Part of their earnings help to fund the training of more young and disadvantaged blind people.
It is the eventual aim for the Seeing Hands project to evolve into a totally self-sustaining social enterprise, run by the blind, for the blind.

The Dharmapala Center in Katmandu, a traditional Buddhist Thangka painting school, is a good place to understand more about this ancient artform. Indeed this centre founded more than thirty years ago has been creating high-quality Thangkas closely adhering to traditional painting customs and supervised by lamas of the Nyingma order. The exquisite paintings from the school have been featured in exhibitions all over the world (US, Japan, Europe, Australia,..) bearing testimony to the skills of these talented artists. Formed by Karsang Lama and then followed up by Master Karma Tse Ring Moktan-Lama and Yubaraj Lama, the school has trained more than three hundred artists in the fine art of Thangka painting over the decades.